Birmingham’s based Crane Hill publishing has published their new site.
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Prose by any other name
Warner Books has announced that their new name is Grand Central Publishing. It’s all part of being bought by a French company last year.
I guess dropping “books” from your business/imprint’s name will be standard practice as the big companies move forward and look at online content, etc.
I do want to see the new logo though. Pass a link along if you stumble across it please!
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Mark your calendar
The Alabama Book Festival is April 21st!
I can’t tell you how much fun we had at last year’s inaugural event! And it wasn’t due to all the free books and swag we picked up. There were some great authors speaking last year. So far the list seems much longer this year.
I see that Southern-super-brain-historian Wayne Flynt will be speaking. So that’s one I’ll have to see and (even better) Amos Kennedy has already committed to hauling his letterpress equipment back down there (like he did last year). His table was right next to the UofA Book Arts people. It’s fun to watch cool people do cool things.
Mark your calendars!
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Power to the people
Over the past couple of weeks Random House and Harper Collins have released web-based apps/widgets that are allowing folks to do some pretty cool things.
They both are offering ways for you to embed “Browse Inside” and “Search Inside” features of books into your own blog. If you’ve ever used Amazon’s “Look Inside” feature then you get the idea.
I haven’t put these new offering through their paces yet, but I have to say that I’m pretty excited.
Here’s a blog maintained by a developer of the Random House widget, but I have to admit he does a good job of offering reviews/links from both sides.
There’s plenty of talk of “the end of the book” and all that. I don’t buy it. But folks in the book biz better get on board with these new ways to “repurpose” “realign” and deliver content in “chunks” if they want to keep their head above water. Either way, these new tools are cool!
